Women’s and Gender Studies, Graduate Certificate Graduate Certificate
The Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies is designed for students enrolled in a graduate program in any field who wish to complement their advanced training and scholarly work with an additional specialization in Women’s and Gender Studies.
Research and study in Women's and Gender Studies helps students:
- identify and assess gender-based assumptions and biases and to recognize their social, cultural and individual consequences;
- analyze and integrate perspectives and bodies of knowledge across disciplines, and develop your critical thinking skills in ways that will complement and enhance your training in any other field;
- prepare for careers in non-profit organizations, businesses, the creative arts, education, government and public policy, journalism, law, social work, and more;
- become empowered to participate in public debate and act for social change.
Program Type
Graduate Certificate
Program Format
On Campus
Admission RequirementsÂ
Application Deadlines
Application deadlines vary by program, please review the for specific programs. Other important dates and deadlines can be found by using the One Stop calendars.
Eligibility and Admission
To pursue this certificate, students must be enrolled in a graduate degree program or already hold a graduate degree. Acceptance to this graduate certificate also requires a minimum 2.75 GPA from the undergraduate degree as well as a letter of intent explaining the applicant's reasons for graduate study.
Application
- Admission to a graduate certificate program requires formal student application through the Graduate School admissions application system, including the required admissions application fee.
- Certificate programs will inform the Graduate School of their admission recommendation for an applicant. The final admission decision is made by the Graduate School.
- Early application to the certificate program is recommended; late application is possible, but may incur delays for certificate conferral related to time required for credit tracking.
- Applicants must possess a baccalaureate degree and have a minimum 2.75 cumulative undergraduate grade point average to be admitted into a certificate program.
Credits and Courses
The Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies requires completion of 15 credits in approved courses with an overall GPA of 3.0. The following are required:
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Required | ||
| °Â³Ò³§Ìý700 | Feminist Issues and Scholarship | 3 |
| °Â³Ò³§Ìý701 | Feminisms in Global Context | 3 |
| °Â³Ò³§Ìý710 | Advanced Feminist Theory | 3 |
| Electives | ||
| Select 6 credits from a combination of WGS courses and approved cross-listed Graduate (G) or Undergraduate/Graduate (U/G) courses in other programs and departments | 6 | |
| Total Credits | 15 | |
No more than 6 credits in U/G courses can apply toward the certificate, and a maximum of 3 credits in independent study may count toward the 15 credits required for the certificate. Thesis and research credits may not be counted toward the certificate.Â
Approved Electives outside of WGS
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ´¡¶ÙÌý³¢¶Ù³§±ÊÌý779 | Current Topics in Administrative Leadership: (Women Teaching and Leadership in Educational Organizations) | 1-3 |
| ´¡¶ÙÌý³¢¶Ù³§±ÊÌý795 | Women and Leadership in Education | 3 |
| ´¡¹ó¸é±õ°äÌý700 | Foundations and Theories in African & African Diaspora Studies | 3 |
| ´¡¹ó¸é±õ°äÌý880 | Seminar on Issues in African & African Diaspora Studies: (Africana Womanism) | 3 |
| °ä°¿²Ñ²Ñ±«±·Ìý802 | Marital and Family Communication | 3 |
| °ä°¿²Ñ²Ñ±«±·Ìý860 | Seminar: Issues in Communication: (Topic: Rhetoric of Marriage and Family) | 3 |
| °ä°¿²Ñ²Ñ±«±·Ìý874 | Rhetoric of Women's Rights in the US | 3 |
| °ä¸é²ÑÌý´³³§°ÕÌý424³Ò | Sex Crimes, Human Trafficking, and the Internet | 3 |
| ·¡±·³Ò³¢±õ³§±áÌý771 | Literature of the English Renaissance: (Early Modern Women Writers) | 3 |
| ·¡±·³Ò³¢±õ³§±áÌý776 | Women Writers: (Gender Anger and Revenge; Early Women Writers; Greatest Hits) | 3 |
| ·¡±·³Ò³¢±õ³§±áÌý780 | African American Literature: (Sex and Sexuality) | 3 |
| ·¡±·³Ò³¢±õ³§±áÌý784 | Topics in Transnational Literature (Transnational Fiction: Unsettling and Gender) | 3 |
| ·¡±·³Ò³¢±õ³§±áÌý812 | Seminar in Theories of Composition and Rhetoric: (Feminist Rhetorics) | 3 |
| ·¡±·³Ò³¢±õ³§±áÌý820 | Seminar in Advanced Topics in Literary Criticism and Research: (Feminist Theory and Criticism) | 1-3 |
| ·¡±·³Ò³¢±õ³§±áÌý843 | Seminar in Renaissance Prose and Poetry: (Women Writers) | 3 |
| ·¡±·³Ò³¢±õ³§±áÌý872 | Seminar in Women Writers: | 3 |
| ·¡±·³Ò³¢±õ³§±áÌý875 | Seminar in Modern Literature: (Gendered Narratives; Virginia Woolf) | 3 |
| ·¡±·³Ò³¢±õ³§±áÌý876 | Seminar in Media Studies: (Family Photography; Queer Cinema and Television) | 3 |
| ·¡±·³Ò³¢±õ³§±áÌý878 | Seminar in Feminist Critical Theory: | 3 |
| ·¡±·³Ò³¢±õ³§±áÌý882 | Seminar in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: (American Women Writers and the Sentimental) | 3 |
| ·¡±·³Ò³¢±õ³§±áÌý883 | Seminar in Twentieth-Century American Literature: (Multiculturalism) | 3 |
| ·¡±·³Ò³¢±õ³§±áÌý885 | Seminar in Critical Theory: (Psychoanalysis, Gender, Sexuality; Queer Theory; Spivac) | 3 |
| ¹ó±õ³¢²Ñ³§°Õ¶ÙÌý690 | Seminar in Contemporary Cinema and Media: (Women Directors) | 3 |
| ¹ó¸é·¡±·°ä±áÌý733 | Seminar in French Literature: (French Women Writers) | 3 |
| ±á±õ³§°ÕÌý840 | Colloquium on Global History: (Gender and Imperialism 1830-1940) | 3 |
| ±á±õ³§°ÕÌý841 | Colloquium on Modern Studies: (Queer Theory) | 3 |
| ±á±õ³§°ÕÌý900 | Seminar on U.S. History: (History of Women in America; Women and Reform 19th and 20th Centuries) | 3 |
| ±á±õ³§°ÕÌý940 | Seminar on Global History: (Gender, Religion and Colonization 1450-1850; Slavery and Gender in Early America and the Caribbean) | 3 |
| ±á±õ³§°ÕÌý950 | Seminar on European History: (Christianity and Sexuality from New Testament Times to the Present) | 3 |
| ±õ±·¶ÙÌý¸é·¡³¢Ìý800 | Current Issues in Industrial Relations: (Family Friendly Work Practices; Sexual Harassment in the Workplace) | 1-3 |
| ´³´¡²Ñ³§Ìý840 | Topics in Media Law and Ethics: (Pornography and Hate Speech) | 3 |
| ´³´¡²Ñ³§Ìý845 | Topics in Gender, Sexuality, and Media: (Gender and Popular Culture) | 3 |
| ´³´¡²Ñ³§Ìý860 | Seminar in Media Studies: (Pornography, Privacy and Hate Speech) | 3 |
| ±·±«¸é³§Ìý763 | Issues in Women's Health and Development | 3 |
| ±·±«¸é³§Ìý779 | Special Topics Seminar: (Current Issues in Women Health Development: Health of Older Women) | 1-5 |
| ±Ê±áÌý740 | Special Topics in Public Health: | 1-3 |
| ±Ê³§³Û°ä±áÌý711 | Current Topics in Psychology: (Feminist Perspectives in Psychoanalysis: Etiology and Treatment of Eating Disorders) | 1-4 |
| ³§°¿°ä±õ°¿³¢Ìý927 | Seminar in Sociology of Contemporary Institutions: (A Sociology of Welfare; Issues in Family and Gender; Sociology of Gender; The Family and the State) | 3 |
| ³§°¿°äÌý°Â¸é°Ìý771 | Development of the Family Over the Life Span | 3 |
| ³§°¿°äÌý°Â¸é°Ìý791 | Current Topics in Social Work: (Women, Work and Family; Family Violence: a Cycle to be Broken) | 1-3 |
| ³§°¿°äÌý°Â¸é°Ìý820 | Seminar in Social Work Practice: (Intimate Partner Violence) | 3 |